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Prof Colin Seymour-Ure
BA (tbc)
Emeritus Professor of Politics
Profile
Prof Seymour-Ure joined the School at its foundation in 1965 and has been an Emeritus Professor since 2002. His publications cover the role of the press and broadcasting in a wide range of issues and institutions - such as Downing Street and White House news management; election campaigns; images of Tony Blair and John Major in the Sun and Daily Mirror; press partisanship; the power of media barons; media policy; political rumours. He helped develop Kent's unique archive of 90,000 political cartoons and wrote the biography of the great cartoonist David Low. He is a Council member of the Hansard Society and is a member of the Society's Commission on the Scrutiny Role of the Commons, led by former Commons Leader Tony Newton and Times political editor Peter Riddell. Until recently he chaired the Independent Television Commission's committee responsible for advising on ITV's advertising rules.
Research Interests
- Politics and the Media
- Broadcasting
- Political Rumour
Selected Publications
| 2003 | Prime Ministers and the Media. Oxford: Blackwell |
| 1996 | The British Press and Broadcasting since 1945. Oxford: Blackwell 2nd edition |